Stopper.



P. EVANS & G. A. DURYEE.

STOPPER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV 11, 1911. RENEWED AUG. 26, 1912.

Patented May 13, 1913.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS "hair in erases earn" orrro FREE EVANS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND GUSTAVUS A. DURYEE,

OF SUMMIT, NEW

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May as, 1913.

Application rues November 11, 1911, Serial no. sea/see Renewed su ustee, 1912. Serial no. 717,191.

1" '0 all whom. it may concern:

- Be it known that. we, l nnn Evans, resi ling at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, and GusrAyps ABEEL DURYEE, residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Stoppers, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention'relates to a new and useful stopper, which may be used for closing bottles or other receptacles.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a stopper, of cork or other mate rial, having Within it reinforcing means, whereby the durability and effectiveness of the article are enhanced.

Another object of the invention is to pro videa stopper having means associated therewith whereby the stopper may be readily withdrawn from the bottle or re cept'acle, and without danger of rupture of the material of which the stopper is made.

Another object is to provide a stopper with a flexible loop secured within the body of the stopper extending from the top thereof.

Another object is to provide a stopper with a flexible loop extending from the top of the stopper whereby the stopper may be Withdrawn from the bottle or receptacle, said loop being held within the body of the stopper by anchoring means which distribute the strain of the loop through the material of the stopper, and which in themselves act to reinforce the stopper.

.Other objects and means of the invention, more. or less broad than those stated above, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the course ofthc following description of the elements, combinations,arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of this specification,

and in which I have shown a merely illusshown in Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a section of r a stopper, showing the reinforcing means within the stopper, but omitting the fingerengaging member.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings 1. indicates a stopper of ordinary form, which may be made of any usual or preferred material, as, for instance, cork. EX- te'nding down into the body of the stopperpreferably fron1 the center of the top there'- of, is an opening indicated by the numeral 2. A. looped member 3, which may-be of cord or wire or any preferred material, but which we prefer should be flexible, is in-- serted into the opening 2, and held in position by means of a preferably rigid pin of any appropriate material, which pierces the stopper transversely of its length, and passes through the end of the loop within the opening 2. This pin 4 may be disposed perpendicularly to the length of the stopper, or it may be arranged at an angle as shown in Fig. l), which arrangement has the advantage that the pin will not interfere with the forcing of the stopper into a bottle mouth of smaller size than the device is intended for. W'hatevcr'the disposition, it will be seen that we have provided a very neat and strong device for the purposes specified. The loop can readily be bent over the cork, as might be desirable Where a seal is. to be placed over the cork, and furthermore the stopper may be used again and again, since it is not apt to be broken in ordinary use. F or the attainment of certain objects, however, We prefer that instead of having a single anchorage pin within the stopper, there shall be a plurality of such. lnl igs. l and 3 we have shown two pins, inclined to the axis of the stopper, said pins crossing each other about medially of their lengths, and both passing through the end of the, loop 3 within the stopper. It will be obvious that the pull of the loop upon the. pins at will be at their crossing points, always substantially centrally of the diameter of the stopper, and the strain will be-distributed throughoutthe body of the material. It will also be evident that with this construction the tendency is to prevent any shearing movement of a 'pin or pins through the stopper, whiclr'would destroy the usefulness of the latter, and thep'ins in themselves serve to reinforce the-stopper. The structure of Fig. 3, which shows the stripper provided with crossing reinforcing pins,, is an improvement per 86, though itomits the finger-engaging member secured to the pins as shown in Fig. .1, since it provides a stopper whose parts are held together by the pins, to a great extent, so that the stopper will not be likely to break up when a corkl screw is applied. Furthermore, it a corkscrew is used with this stopper the same will secure a firm hold under or between the pins, facilitating the removal of the stopper, and without any danger of breaking it. These pins 4% are made somewiat short, so that I when they are driven home the ends will be within the stopper and the material of the latter will close up over the ends, so 3 that the pins will be practically invisible, 1 and out of the possibilityv of coming in contact with the contents of 'the'bottle or re ceptacle.

It will be obvious that we may employ a Y plurality of more than two anchorage pins, all of them crossing each other and all of them engaging the loop at their crossing 3 portions; also that instead of arranging the pins, as shown in Fig. 1, they may be disposed horizontally.

As many changes could be made in the l above construction and many apparentlyl widely difi erent embodiments of this invenl tion could be made without departing from l the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall 1 be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting;- sense. It is also to be understood that the language used in the following y the invention, which as a matter of language,

might be said to fall therebetwec Having thus des ribed our invention, what y we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A stopper having an OPtEllinrr extending 1 thereinto from its top, a pull extending into said opening and a plurality of pins can 1 ing each other within the stopper and engaging said pull within the stopper at their points of crossing, said pins being inclined with respectto the axis of the stopper.

In testimony whereof we alhx our s1gnaarcs in the presence of two witnesses.

FRED EVANS, I GUS'IUU/ A. DDBEEE lVitnesses:

Cnixs. W. Nivnns, J. XVALTER DnWnKix 

